Dr. Elke Umbeck

Dr. Elke Umbeck

Lawyer
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Specialization

Instruments

  • Litigation
  • Arbitration

Languages

  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Italian

Practice areas

  • Commercial law
  • Corporate law (M&A)

Industries

  • Automotive
  • Bank and financial services
  • Energy and infrastructure
  • Logistics and transportation
  • Trade

Qualification

Experience

Elke regularly acts as counsel and arbitrator (sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and presiding arbitrator) in national and international arbitral proceedings (DIS, ICC, LCIA, ad hoc); Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Post-M&A-lawsuits, Corporate law; Energy Law; Construction Law

  • Since September 2008
    Partner with Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
  • 2009 - 2017
    Part-time lecturer at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg ("International Commercial Law")
  • 2001 - 2008
    Associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Berlin and Hamburg in the corporate and dispute resolution practice groups;
  • 1996 - 1999
    Research assistant, Institute for Foreign and International Civil Law, University of Cologne
  • 1996 - 1998
    Legal studies at the Universities of Bielefeld, Strasbourg, Cologne and Münster (Dr jur 1998)

Hamburg Arbitration Circle e.V. (HAC) (First Vice Chairman); Chinese European Arbitration Center (Advisory Board Member); Chinese European Legal Association (Vice President); German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA); German Institution of Arbitration (DIS); German Corporate Law Association (VGR); German Foreign Law Association; German-Italian Lawyers Association (DIJV); International Bar Association (IBA)

  • Modernes Case Management, zusammen mit Dr. Jonas Pust ICC-Germany Magazin 9/19
  • International Arbitration in Germany, Chambers Global Arbitration Guide, zusammen mit Ulrike Gantenberg und Dr. Jonas Pust
  • BGH: Internationaler Gerichtsstand der Streitgenossenschaft gemäß Art. 6 Nr. 1 LugÜ bei Klage gegen Täter einer Untreue und dessen Gehilfen, Annotation to the decision of the German High Court in Civil Matters, 30.11.2009, II ZR 55/09, GWR 2010, 188
  • Managerhaftung als Gegenstand schiedsgerichtlicher Verfahren (Directors’ liability as a subject of arbitral proceedings), SchiedsVZ 3/2009, S. 143-149
  • BGH: Existenzvernichtungshaftung erst recht im Liquidationsstadium einer Gesellschaft, Annotation to the decision of the Federal High Court in Civil Matters, 09.02.2009, II ZR 292/07 („Sanitary“), GWR 2009, 85
  • Zulässigkeit eines Mindestausgabebetrages bei der bedingten Kapitalerhöhung zur Bedienung von Wandelschuldverschreibungen, AG 2008, S. 67-73
  • Ablehnung einer Nachlassspaltung in deutsch-amerikanischen Erbrechtsfällen bei der Geltendmachung von Rückübertragungsansprüchen gemäß § 3 VermG, IPRax 2002, S. 33-35
  • Rechtsübertragungsklauseln bei der Filmauftrags- und -koproduktion öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunkanstalten, München 2000
  • Guerilla Tactics in Arbitration Proceedings, Options to React for Opponents, Tribunals and State Courts, Speech at the 2. Hamburg Arbitration Discussion of the Hamburg Arbitration Circle e.V., June 21, 2011 in Hamburg
  • Cash Pooling as Instrument of Group Financing, Speech at a Client Seminar on Capital Market Law, February 10, 2011 in Hamburg
  • How do German Courts Support Arbitral Tribunals in their Fight against Guerrilla Practices? (ICC Austria Conference Guerrilla Tactics in International Arbitration & Litigation) Vienna, 10 - 13 November 2010
  • The Supervisory Board in State-run Companies (Behoerdenspiegel, October 2010 and May 2011)
  • Litigation with regard to German Limited Liability Companies (Beck-Verlag Praktiker-Seminar), October 2009; March/October 2010 and March/October 2011
  • Recent Developments in the Law regarding German Limited Liability Companies (Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg together with Dr Johan Schneider), 6 May 2010 and 19 October 2011

Contact

Address

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
Partnerschaft mbB von Rechtsanwälten und Steuerberatern

Neuer Wall 63
20354 Hamburg